Monday, October 28, 2013

DearREADERS,
We were so busy doing Hangouts we completely forgot that it's been 1 year since we began hosting Mondays with Myrt. Yup! The 8 October 2013 Mondays with Myrt is archived here. We started using GoToWebinar, but quickly outgrew the room. Fortunately, Cousin +Russ Worthington and I learned from +Tessa Keough that Google+ Hangouts have progressed from the early days, and now provide a stable platform where a lot of good GeneaConversations are happening.

Here's the lineup for today's Mondays with Myrt, which starts in about 45 minutes. Directions for JOINing and VIEWing follow this list.

Why Crista Cowan, the Barefoot Genealogist should get a raise. (In which
we solve the mystery of where to click to find the link to source info
on this Ancestry.com image.)

Michelle Entrop has a question about creating a client report. We've got several suggestions for her as she writes "Thank you so much your weekly hangout!!! I've been working on my first
client report, modeling after the Sosa-Stradonitz System in the BCG
Standards Manual. Spending HOURS upon HOURS manually numbering every
fact in the text, numbering the reference note at the bottom of that
page, managing if it's the full or short reference note, renumbering
when I add one more fact. Does any genealogy software automate this in
an way? Thanks again!"

John Laws has a question about his One Name Study work. See his post reproduced here:

Hi Pat after following your Mastering Genealogical Proof class I have an anomaly of my own

I
have been continuing the extraction of LAWS from England & Wales,
National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),
1858-1966 and have found an anomaly that I could do with a bit of help
with.

We have a Thomas Francis Cresswell Laws he was a Ships
Steward born 1837 who appears in shipping records in Sydney Australia as
serving on the steamship "Wonga Wonga" between Melbourne & Sydney
in 1863.

I found in the Probate Calendars I found Thomas
Francis Cresswell Laws of 14 Cecilian Avenue, Worthing Sussex England
died 27 January 1961 Administration London 13 March to Muriel Laws widow
Effects £944 16s 4d certainly not the above man.

But when I
looked at FMP & Ancestry.com for the death record I find the index
refers to a Thomas F B Laws as dying in Worthing in 1961 even the
original record gives it as Thomas F B Laws aged 31 so obviously I
suspect that the entry in the GRO death index has been transcribed
incorrectly

and the entry in the Probate Calendar is correct and
that he is some relation to the ships steward, we have a number of the
The Cresswell Laws family who came from Middlesborogh including a
Thomas Cresswell LAWS born 1870 died 1951 at 24 Warwick Gardens Worthing
so not him either but oddly married to Muriel.

Let's talk about this on Mondays with Myrt who's coming week +Russ Worthington.
This is precisely what inferential genealogy is all about. We have to
resolve conflicts like this to get proof of an individual's identity.
You've done 90% of the work here +John Laws, so this will be interesting.

HERE'S HOW TO JOIN
The first ten people who JOIN will appear on the panel and must have voice and
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If you attempt to join, and receive the notice that the Hangout is full, then
go to the VIEW option listed below.

The Hangout will not start appearing here until I press the record button at
the top of the hour. It may take a minute for the video stream to kick in.

HERE'S WHERE ALL MAY POST COMMENTS
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do so back at DearMYRTLE's Genealogy Community on Google+, perhaps on a
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